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Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby RogerS » 15 Dec 2018, 12:06

How about this for a turnround?

Tuesday - Submitted application online with photo
Wednesday - Reminder from them to send in the old passport
Thursday - Posted old passports to them using Special Delivery
Friday - morning...."Your application and photo have been approved"
Friday - afternoon ..."Your new passport has been despatched"

Saturday -Postie just delivered them

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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby Robert » 15 Dec 2018, 13:26

Ours took a little longer but not much. You seem to get a random passport office to send your old passport to. Mine went to Belfast and Mrs went somewhere else in England - can't remember where but it wasn't London.
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby Andyp » 15 Dec 2018, 15:28

Always been very quick from here. Just about to renew passports for my girls. 3 at once gets a bit expensive but at least they will be able to travel on either French or UK whichever is the cheaper. ;) ;)
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby StevieB » 15 Dec 2018, 18:01

Andyp wrote:Always been very quick from here. Just about to renew passports for my girls. 3 at once gets a bit expensive but at least they will be able to travel on either French or UK whichever is the cheaper. ;) ;)


Or which ever is accepted given the current state of play in the UK!
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 16 Dec 2018, 12:47

My wife has been a UK taxpayer since she married me 33 years ago...for her to replace her Irish passport with a British one is several thousand pounds, some kind of written test and....
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby RogerS » 16 Dec 2018, 17:00

SamQ aka Ah! Q! wrote:My wife has been a UK taxpayer since she married me 33 years ago...for her to replace her Irish passport with a British one is several thousand pounds, some kind of written test and....
:shock: :shock:

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Have you ventured into Newcastle yet ?
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 17 Dec 2018, 22:59

Yerr!! Got me jabs, stab vest and the wife as bodyguard. :lol:

Seriously, I'm impressed with New Kastle as they pronounce it. Hospital (RVI) is efficient and welcoming; the peripheral shopping is every bit as good as Eldon Square/Monument area. Found Boundary Mills yet? Smashing outdoor store for hillwalkers and scramblers next door.

We've done the trip several ways now, recommend LNER for speed, bus for economy, car for coronary - with twunts coming down slip roads in all sorts of natural-selection-fulfilling ways...specially near Ikea.

In other news, wondered why our new place was so feckin cold...went back to the loft, took a closer look at insulation...two asteriskival inches of tatty, blew-my-nose-on-it boggone fibrowispyratsnestglass????????????? And the previous owner had a workshop and claimed he was a handyman? No wonder the gas boiler wore out after six years, he had it burning diesel, peat and conservative party manifestos day and night to stay warm!!

We thought the condensation inside the wardrobes (up against the outer walls) was a leaking roof. :x

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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby Malc2098 » 18 Dec 2018, 10:53

Doncher just love it over here!

Great post! Made I larf!
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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby SamQ aka Ah! Q! » 18 Dec 2018, 23:41

Ai do thank you...bows... :D

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Re: Let's hear it for the Passport Office

Postby Andyp » 09 Jan 2019, 15:54

Just got all the passports back.
Don't quite understand the courier delivery service.
The old clipped passports had to be signed for and arrived yesterday in separate packages.
The new passports arrived today also in separate packages but I just saw the same DHL driver as yesterday leave them in the letterbox, no signature required.
Letterboxes here BTW are on the street and not on the house.
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